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May 29, 2007
New summer skirt!
Today I payed a visit to the very dangerous Valley Fabrics and was instantly overwhelmed by all their beautiful stuff. I went with a couple of projects in mind: a skirt and a little something I'm hoping to make for Dandie in the Underworld when Rosa and Marisa get it up and running.
I made the skirt this afternoon, using the pattern in Sew U. I was reading the section on skirts and there is a suggestion for how to adapt the pattern to use an elastic or drawstring waist instead of a zipper. I decided to go for the elastic, since I'm a little sick of sewing in zippers. But there was one little problem...
The book says that, to make the elastic waist, all you need to do is not sew up the darts, to make it a little wider. I got the skirt all sewn together and realized that there was clearly going to be trouble. There was no way the skirt's skinny waist was going on over my hips as required. So, I chopped it off at a more reasonable width. It made the skirt much shorter, maybe shorter than I was going to make it originally, but I think it ended up being a cute, summer skirt.
Next time, I'll definitely adjust the width at the waistline before cutting, since I plan to make this pattern again, and continue to avoid zippers sometimes.
Posted by kelseyfrost at May 29, 2007 09:00 PM
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